Quotes about Circumstances
God's plans and purposes for us are good, even when our circumstances are far from good.
— Peter Scazzero
The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be - and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
when we talk about the peace of God, don't think of singing and swaying and holding hands in a circle. The peace of God is strong, intense, palpable, real. You can sense its stable presence giving you inner security despite insecure circumstances.
— Priscilla Shirer
The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.
— Mother Angelica
No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign
— Randy Alcorn
Countless people in worse situations are happier than those in better situations. This demonstrates that happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus.
— Randy Alcorn
Why aren't you happy?" they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.
— Randy Alcorn
The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God." —Margaret Clarkson
— Randy Alcorn